Bryant Lavender is a native of Gulfport, Mississippi. He received his education a Gulfport High School in 2009. He then went on to college at the University of South Alabama on an athletic scholarship playing football for the jaguars for 5 years. His position….wide receiver. Bryant also graduated with a degree in Exercise Science. Leaving USA he published his first book, Mind Under Pigskin the summer of 2014. Bryant also started speaking that same year sharing his testimony and encrouging people to tap into their potential and purpose God has for them. The release of his second book in 2015 Sweet Asylum he co-authored before leaving to go play professional football in the Arena Football League. His most recent book Driven released in the spring of 2018 is a sport biography describing combing the world of athletics with his desire to live for Jesus Christ.